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by peterlk 26d ago
Yep. I’ve found that having an endpoint that serves a well, documented openapi.yaml is very effective for agentic usage. The biggest difference is that you can break down a REST API into RPC-like chunks and save on some tokens if you break
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by peterlk 1mo ago
I wonder how similar the 2000s-era napster fight will look when we get a high quality music diffusion model with 0 copyright guardrails. Then I can listen to unlimited, radio of my favorite artists serenading me with songs I’d wished they’d
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by peterlk 1mo ago
It’s been a while, but when I was in high school, I was up at 6:30 so that I could run through the shower, get to 7AM jazz band late, be at school until 4ish, then off to my minimum-ish wage job until it was time to go to evening jazz/
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by peterlk 1mo ago
Preach! I spent several hours this weekend trying to move my library between computers. So many popups and warnings telling me that I need to do something with no explanation of why. The docs are a mess. The library compatibility is a mess.
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by peterlk 1mo ago
I’ve been wondeing if this is a similar phenomenon to plane crashes being reported more when there is a plane crash, thus leading people to believe, incorrectly, that there are more plane crashes. Is it maybe common that recalls happen with
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by peterlk 1mo ago
This is what the presumption of innocence is supposed to do. If you have an alibi, then big brother doesn’t get involved. These are cultural problems that we do not need big brother’s benevolence to solve for us. We need better cultural sys
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by peterlk 1mo ago
I don’t think it matters that much for Google. They need to not fall hopelessly behind, but I don’t think there’s a strong economic reason for Google to burn the kind of capex that the frontier labs are burning. Strategically, I think they’
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by peterlk 2mo ago
Can you be more specific about what “unbelievably terrible” means?
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by peterlk 2mo ago
Nothing is stopping people from doing that. It’s just more inconvenient than other available options. If I were a politician trying to remove private communication, I would first pass something that allows scanning communications, then pass
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by peterlk 2mo ago
Over Christmas, I spent several minutes trying to debug my beeping dashboard - it only seemed to happen sometimes while driving, so stopping didn’t let me figure it out. Eventually I discovered that it was beeping at me because my eyes were
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by peterlk 3mo ago
Yeah. I would expect that Samsung or Apple’s bundled AI things (whatever those end up being) will be good enough for consumers, and open models will be the things that actually get used in the products of the future because they will allow
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by peterlk 3mo ago
Over the long term, it seems like open models must win out. This feels like it rhymes with the story of operating systems. Despite the enormous financial contributions of Microsoft and Apple, linux still won because control matters over the
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by peterlk 3mo ago
The chain of “Why?”s here is really baffling to me. Why do we have measles outbreaks? Because people aren’t vaccinating their kids. Why aren’t people vaccinating their kids? Because there seems to be a generalized fear of vaccinations and t
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by peterlk 3mo ago
Yes to diffusion models! Combo pipelines of generative and diffusion models have super interesting potential
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by peterlk 4mo ago
AI output reads like homepage marketing content (e.g. the text that fades in when you scroll down an apple product page) expanded to fill some context window size (the paragraphs tend to be about the same size). What you get is vacuous, cho
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by peterlk 4mo ago
You need to have an Apple developer account. Then you need to submit your app to Apple for review. Then you need to comply with a list of sometimes arbitrary corrections/requirements that they send back (there is a document that specif
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by peterlk 4mo ago
Any sufficiently specified prompt is indistinguishable from code
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by peterlk 4mo ago
I am also not in the market for a Ferrari. The problem is that it looks so pedestrian. Personally, I think the Ioniq has more personality. For a 600k car, it should have some appeal. This just looks like every other EV; it’s generic and bor
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by peterlk 4mo ago
Yes they do…? Who cares if they just predict the next token? The outcome is that they can invent new abstractions. You could claim that the invention of this new idea is a combination of an LLM and a harness, but that combination can solve
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by peterlk 4mo ago
This is not a very compelling argument. Things already cost money. We wouldn’t oppose a water tax because we were worried people might refuse to hydrate themselves once water was marginally more expensive. It might marginally exacerbate an
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by peterlk 4mo ago
Bluesky, threads, mastodon, and everything else built on activitypub AT, etc. are still there. You can leave X behind; the only thing stopping you is the other people who could also leave X but are still there because you’re there. There ar
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by peterlk 5mo ago
I think everyone should avoid talking about consciousness unless someone in the conversation provides a clear definition of it. If no one provides a definition, we can replace the word “consciousness” with the word “spirit”, and basically n
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by peterlk 5mo ago
Thanks for numberwang today. Probably my favorite meme for board meetings and all-hands presentations
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by peterlk 5mo ago
https://xcancel.com/heynavtoor/status/2044433988312560051
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by peterlk 5mo ago
Reminds me a bit of the coolest talk I ever got to see in person: https://youtu.be/FITJMJjASUs?si=Fx4hmo77A62zHqzy It’s a derivation of the Y combinator from ruby lambdas
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by peterlk 5mo ago
It’s because they’re playing with monopoly money. If you leverage all the money on itself repeatedly, you can make the numbers look insane. Then, you hand pieces of the leveraged money (stock options) to a bunch of executives who will be wa
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by peterlk 6mo ago
My favorites are the micrograd series by Andrej Karpathy on youtube [0], and “Why Deep Learning Works Unreasonably Well” [1] The greats on youtube are also worth watching: 3B1B, numberphile, etc. [0] https://youtube.com/play
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by peterlk 6mo ago
Attention is all you need…? The short answer, as far as I’m aware, is that no one really knows. The longer answer is that we have a lot of partial answers that, in my mind, basically boil down to: model architectures draw a walk through the
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by peterlk 6mo ago
Modern AI is a miracle. The math that makes it work is beautiful and really impressive. For example, if you wanted to map all knowledge on earth, how would you do it? AI answers that question by building a high dimensional vector space of e
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by peterlk 6mo ago
I don’t think this problem is that hard to solve, it just requires political will that doesn’t exist. The solution is to make it the platform’s problem. If the platform doesn’t want to deal with fraud, they don’t get to operate in that juri

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